With new spaces of labor in the digital realm have come new forms of exploitation and class struggle. Another, perhaps more hegemonic trend, has also emerged that requires our attention: the use of these new technological tools to the ends of capitalism. The tools of the web, at least on their surface, would seem to be, and sometimes are, used to build solidarity and work against the inhumane machinations of capitalism. The past few decades have, for socialists, been a puzzling time. Adding to the sheer complexity of that task, globalized information capitalism has made it increasingly hard to find much, if any, solid footing from which to speak truth to power. Since Foucault, it has been the project of us in the critical tradition to attempt to more accurately map present and emergent economies of power.
Wark, in writing Capital Is Dead, makes a timely intervention in contemporary political theory on the left.
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